> its 32-bit representation. This seems like it might be too > conservative for me, since it implies that R allocated exactly as much > memory for the lists as there were numbers in the list (e.g. typically > in an interpreter like this you'd be allocating on order-of-two > boundaries, i.e. sizeof(obj) << 21; this is how Python lists > internally work).
This is not how R vectors work. R data structures tend to be immutable, and so are designed somewhat differently to their python equivalents. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
